Herby Homage: 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil' (1818), a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron for this week's #TuesdayTale. Painted here by Millais (detail, 1849 @Tate), Holman Hunt (1868), Waterhouse (1907) & George Henry Manton (1919) 🌿
Good morning from us and these charming doodles of a peacock and a peahen from the Commonplace Book of Tye and Hannah Brown (1728-1740). @UoNLibraries#manuscripts#archives#marginalia
It's been a busy weekend for us! First filming a 17th century herbal for Countryfile in the gorgeous @nlamuseum and then taking some 1970s/1980s University records over to @MedicineUON for a reunion for the class of 1982!
We have just updated the Knowledge is Power website with more content & some excellent poems responding to the exhibition: https://t.co/btLT2vn9kX
Enormous thanks to Cathy Grindrod (The Writer Highway) and Pippa Hennessey @battypip @FiveLeavesBooks#adulted#nottingham
@Martin67616598@NadiaWhittomeMP You’ve missed the bit off the screenshot where it shows that most of this amount goes to pay her staff. 😊 https://t.co/SS1Sz7gBTM
Three years ago, in the night of 14 March 2020, while Oxford was preparing for the Covid lockdown, three paintings were stolen in a brutal, premeditated burglary from us:
Anthony van Dyck, Horse and Rider; Annibale Carracci, Boy Drinking; Salvator Rosa, Five Men in a Landscape.